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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1913
Page
7
A fragment from Robert M. Gay discusses how incentive drives reading choice, noting that many read little of Dante yet some enjoy profound works like the Inferno Paradiso and Purgatorio. The essay cites a department store clerk who read Jakob Bohme and reflects on the varied uses readers find in books.
A New York strike by hokey pokey workers draws attention to the rapid spread of ready to eat ice cream sold in cones. The labor action involves up to 2500 workers seeking union recognition a minimum wage of 18 dollars and a 12 hour day amid pure food regulatory concerns and broad distribution from shops to pushcarts.
Wisconsin professor forms company to search Oak Island near Chester Nova Scotia for a 2 million pound hoard buried over 200 years ago. Captain John Welling oversees dredge work after two prior failed attempts. Earlier digs reached ninety five feet and loosed a carved stone stating the treasure lies ten feet below.
A historical notice describes the Romanoffs as living beyond strict civil lists. It notes Alexander II drew 25 million dollars from the treasury for his morganatic wife and children. The imperial family civil list is six million yearly, with potential to rise, while the czar possesses private revenues, including Siberian estates yielding about 5.5 million annually.
Granite is described as two and two thirds times as heavy as water with a specific gravity of 2 663. A cubic yard weighs three quarters of a ton and strength varies by grade. Poor granite resists 18 000 psi while good close grained granite withstands 30 000 psi. Some Wey’s cousin granites have borne 43 973 psi.
The Societe de la Boulie, parent golf club of France, creates a caddie organization granting each enrolled caddie a steady daily wage and a hot noon meal. It interfaces caddies as a Boy Scouts style company, with a dining hall gym lavatories and training in gardening carpentry and other trades.
Luther E. Widen, M A, recent UIowa PhD, will be the first psychologist to join the Stefansson polar expedition. He plans to study the white Eskimo and is assembling his psychological equipment for the journey. He is of Swedish parentage.
In a sharp exchange, a clerk refuses a drug to a customer arguing the man seems inclined to harm himself. The customer questions the clerk about his own appearance implying potential self-harm. The clerk responds cautiously, noting he would be tempted if he looked like the customer.
An elderly, paralyzed woman in a wheeled chair declares herself a fervent suffragette. She argues a single converted young woman will create a chain of influence, with each convert producing two more, making the suffrage effort endlessly spread and worthwhile. The Pittsburgh Dispatch is cited.
A well respected Winsted Massachusetts resident offers 100 dollars to anyone who can stop his snoring. The note suggests numerous harsh, humorous cures from sleeping on his face to tying his nose for relief, aiming to end the snoring by expense and worry.
In Italy and France football fever prompts Sig Lucano Zuccoli to protest that English sports terms such as match rush and trial invade the mother tongue. He cites Milan Football and Cricket Club with its English name and notes football stems from ancient Roman harpastum.
From Coleridge's new English collection a humorous Cardinal Newman tale is recounted. A high church Anglican visiting Rome participated in a service, kneeling with the priest and standing with the congregation, only to find he was the sole male among women, and the cardinal notes he had been churched.
Richard Blackmore's romance Lor na Fuone failed at first but later gained readers after the Marquis of Lerne's marriage sparked attention. The pubic response grew as readers misinterpreted the title to refer to the queen's new son in law, boosting sales of the Devonshire tale.
The passage reports that the old bridge works field is being prepared for a new building by the Boston Bridge Work and Company. It recalls youths in East Cambridge fleeing Sixth Street Bridge to swim and hide their clothes from police, fearing loss of space when chased next summer.
The article describes experiments before clocks using candles as timekeepers. Alfred the Great ordered six 12 inch tapers, each divided into twelve one inch segments, with three segments burning per hour. Each taper burned in four hours, and when lit sequentially the six tapers lasted twenty four hours.
A man at the door asks the former reciter of Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight to perform another piece. She responds that time has passed and recalls no such curfew recitation recently. He suggests replacing the curfew with a piano piece.
The Rue Visconti site where Balzac ran his printing office on the left bank of the Seine is reportedly doomed as urban projects extend the Rue de Rennes. Balzac’s heavy manuscript work, including the laborious retypes of Cesar Birotteau fifteen times in twenty days, is cited as a factor in the business’s collapse.
A London Chronicle excerpt notes Kobe Herald coverage of a modern Japan setting for Hamlet. The Prince appears in stages: silk hat and tails, then bicycle in blue cycling gear, then evening dress with a flower. Ophelia is reimagined as Hamlet’s University of Tokyo classmate.
A striking photograph of a meteor trail, taken by English sergeant A Hempstead at Mhow, India, won first prize in a Times of India Illustrated Weekly contest. The meteor flashed brilliantly for about two seconds, its tail lingering for roughly 20 minutes, while the image captures an irregular sinuous trail shaped by wind drift.
The bronze equestrian statue of Charles IV known as The Iron Horse or The Little Horse stands in Plaza De la Reforma as a city landmark. Noted as the first major bronze statue in America, it has been praised by Humboldt and unpopular with locals, and has moved sites several times, earning the nickname El Cabillito de Troya meaning the Little Trojan Horse.
In the Christian Herald essay the Zone American is defined by sterling moral character and independence surpassing the typical American. It argues that blending life standards shows the genuine art of living resides in home and family, not in the temptations of urban life abroad.
A London surgeon argues frog skin could be a viable grafting material for humans. He notes extensive American use with success and mentions rabbit, calf skin and embryonic egg shell lining as other substitutes, all having favorable results.
An Englishman returning from a world tour saw a local paper report his return ending with “unchanged.” The compositor had omitted the letters “ec,” turning the word into “un changed,” prompting surprise from his friends.
A famous sculptor sits beside a flirtatious young woman at dinner. Her chatter prompts him to remark that he admires any woman who is not a figure of speech, delivering a sharp toast to her vanity.
In a quoted Yale Review piece Gertrude Atherton argues that men and women are made of the same materials and that individual strength or weakness, not sex, shapes character. She predicts liberty and ambition among women will lead to fierce competition with men, potentially overturning traditional roles.
The article discusses Abdülhamid's claim that Turkish slaves in households are better off than servants, noting that masters bear maintenance, treat slaves as family, and offer education and marriage prospects. An English governess's remark is revealed as shaming, provoking slaves to call them slaves, not servants.
In Paris fifty of the city’s best known people arrived three quarters of an hour late to a dress rehearsal at the Porte Saint Martin theater for Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. They were told no admission until the end of the act and waited in the foyer while fuming at the management. No chic theatergoer has arrived on time to see the opening.
Chesterton argues against conflicting adjectives that negate the noun. He warns that a free patriotism should not contradict itself and uses analogies with pork pie and four footed beings to illustrate clarity in language.
The article notes nine and a half million wage earning women in Germany driven by factory demand. Prussia and Saxony textile plants absorb 400,000 women while other regions Baden Württemberg Hesse Alsace Lorraine also employ women. Women dominate artificial flowers, toys, clocks in the Black Forest and hand weaving in Silesia and Thuringia, with widespread employment across industries.
A Scotsman rides a donkey across a sheep pasture and cannot cross a drain. He spurs the animal to leap the drain, but the donkey stops. The rider falls, and as he regains balance he questions the donkey plainly asking how the beast will get over itself.
A London fashion note predicts a trend toward men's aigrettes as head adornment grows. Hatted males reportedly wear large feather trims resembling women's styles, often with pheasant claws and a metal base ornament. Prices range from four to five dollars per hat.
A three months test of oil fuel on a Pacific coast revenue cutter shows oil saving $544.08 vs coal for the period. Coal cost $694.44 at $5.40 per ton, oil $163.83 at 60 cents per gallon. Steam cost falls from 64 cents to 60 cents per mile. Crew reduced from four to three men, yielding an annual saving of $647.
LeBlond's advertises a large sale on children's and ladies rain coats. Shoppers are invited to choose from a wide range of sizes and styles at reduced prices.
A European doctor uses ultra violet rays to illuminate specimens to boost microscope resolving power. An artificial eye with crystal glass lens and fluorescent retina forms the image, viewed through a normal lens. Fluorescent light is harmful to the eye, so the method is used rarely.
Writing in 1659 after coffee’s English arrival, Howell notes coffee supplants alcohol in daily use. He cites clerks and apprentices shifting from ale to this wakeful drink, praising Sir James Muddiford for introducing the practice in London and earning national respect.
Wesleyan, Williams and Harvard offer the fewest holidays among ten leading eastern colleges, including the 1912 summer and 1912 13 terms. Columbia grants 138 idle days, Penn 126, Wesleyan and Harvard 117, Princeton 123, Yale 121, with opposition often from parents rather than teachers.
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